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This paper presents a routing strategy for UAVs that can be applied in conjunction with lower level collision avoidance methods. The strategy allows individual UAVs to route themselves in 2D space in order to avoid areas of high-density traffic. The proposed approach is explored in simulation. The results demonstrate a safer system operation when the routing strategy is used, compared with just a simple collision avoidance method.
This work was supported by an EPSRC grant EP/R0047571 and by Thales SA.
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Bonnell, W.D. (2019). Improved Safety with a Distributed Routing Strategy for UAVs. In: Althoefer, K., Konstantinova, J., Zhang, K. (eds) Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems. TAROS 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11650. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25332-5_43
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